1 Chronicles 1–3

FROM ADAM TO ABRAHAM

1Adam,^a Seth, Enosh,

²Kenan, Mahalalel, Jared,

³Enoch, Methuselah, Lamech,

⁴Noah, Noah’s sons:^A

Shem, Ham, and Japheth.

⁵Japheth’s^b sons: Gomer, Magog, Madai, Javan, Tubal, Meshech, and Tiras.

⁶Gomer’s sons: Ashkenaz, Riphath, and Togarmah.

⁷Javan’s sons: Elishah, Tarshish, Kittim, and Rodanim.

⁸Ham’s sons: Cush, Mizraim,^D Put, and Canaan.

⁹Cush’s sons: Seba, Havilah, Sabta, Raama, and Sabteca.

Raama’s sons: Sheba and Dedan.

¹⁰Cush fathered Nimrod, who was the first to become a great warrior on earth.

¹¹Mizraim^c fathered the people of Lud, Anam, Lehab, Naphtuh, ¹²Pathrus, Casluh (the Philistines came from them), and Caphtor.^d

¹³Canaan fathered Sidon as his firstborn and Heth, ¹⁴as well as the Jebusites, Amorites, Girgashites, ¹⁵Hivites, Arkites, Sinites, ¹⁶Arvadites, Zemarites, and Hamathites.

¹⁷Shem’s^e sons: Elam, Asshur, Arpachshad, Lud, Aram, Uz, Hul, Gether, and Meshech.

¹⁸Arpachshad fathered Shelah, and Shelah fathered Eber. ¹⁹Two sons were born to Eber. One of them was named Peleg^E because the earth was divided during his lifetime, and the name of his brother was Joktan. ²⁰Joktan fathered Almodad, Sheleph, Hazarmaveth, Jerah, ²¹Hadoram, Uzal, Diklah, ²²Ebal, Abimael, Sheba, ²³Ophir, Havilah, and Jobab. All of these were Joktan’s sons.

²⁴Shem,^f Arpachshad, Shelah,

²⁵Eber, Peleg, Reu,

²⁶Serug, Nahor, Terah,

²⁷and Abram (that is, Abraham).

ABRAHAM’S DESCENDANTS

²⁸Abraham’s sons: Isaac and Ishmael.

²⁹These^g are their family records: Nebaioth, Ishmael’s firstborn, Kedar, Adbeel, Mibsam, ³⁰Mishma, Dumah, Massa, Hadad, Tema, ³¹Jetur, Naphish, and Kedemah.

These were Ishmael’s sons.

³²The sons^h born to Keturah, Abraham’s concubine: Zimran, Jokshan, Medan, Midian, Ishbak, and Shuah.

Jokshan’s sons: Sheba and Dedan.

³³Midian’s sons: Ephah, Epher, Hanoch, Abida, and Eldaah.

All of these were Keturah’s descendants.

³⁴Abrahamⁱ fathered Isaac.

Isaac’s sons: Esau and Israel.^j

³⁵Esau’s^k sons: Eliphaz, Reuel, Jeush, Jalam, and Korah.

³⁶Eliphaz’s sons: Teman, Omar, Zephi, Gatam, and Kenaz; and by Timna, Amalek.

³⁷Reuel’s sons: Nahath, Zerah, Shammah, and Mizzah.

THE EDOMITES

³⁸Seir’s^l sons: Lotan, Shobal, Zibeon, Anah, Dishon, Ezer, and Dishan.

³⁹Lotan’s sons: Hori and Homam. Timna was Lotan’s sister.

⁴⁰Shobal’s sons: Alian, Manahath, Ebal, Shephi, and Onam.

Zibeon’s sons: Aiah and Anah.

⁴¹Anah’s son: Dishon.

Dishon’s sons: Hamran, Eshban, Ithran, and Cheran.

⁴²Ezer’s sons: Bilhan, Zaavan, and Jaakan.

Dishan’s sons: Uz and Aran.

⁴³These^m were the kings who reigned in the land of Edom

before any king reigned over the Israelites:

Bela son of Beor.

Bela’s town was named Dinhabah.

⁴⁴When Bela died, Jobab son of Zerah from Bozrah^a reigned in his place.

⁴⁵When Jobab died, Husham from the land of the Temanites^b reigned in his place.

⁴⁶When Husham died, Hadad son of Bedad, who defeated Midian in the territory of Moab, reigned in his place.

Hadad’s town was named Avith.

⁴⁷When Hadad died, Samlah from Masrekah reigned in his place.

⁴⁸When Samlah died, Shaul from Rehoboth on the Euphrates River reigned in his place.

⁴⁹When Shaul died, Baal-hanan son of Achbor reigned in his place.

⁵⁰When Baal-hanan died, Hadad reigned in his place.

Hadad’s city was named Pai, and his wife’s name was Mehetabel daughter of Matred,

daughter of Me-zahab.

⁵¹Then Hadad died.

Edom’s^c chiefs: Timna, Alvah,^B Jetheth, ⁵²Oholibamah, Elah, Pinon, ⁵³Kenaz, Teman, Mibzar, ⁵⁴Magdiel, and Iram.

These were Edom’s chiefs.

ISRAEL’S SONS

2These^d were Israel’s sons:

Reuben, Simeon, Levi,

Judah, Issachar, Zebulun,

²Dan, Joseph, Benjamin,

Naphtali, Gad, and Asher.

JUDAH’S DESCENDANTS

³Judah’s^e sons: Er, Onan, and Shelah.^f These three were born to him by Bath-shua the Canaanite woman. Er, Judah’s firstborn, was evil in the Lord’s sight, so he put him to death. ⁴Judah’s daughter-in-law Tamar bore Perez and Zerah to him. Judah had five sons in all.

⁵Perez’s sons: Hezron and Hamul.

⁶Zerah’s sons: Zimri, Ethan, Heman, Calcol, and Dara^g—five in all.

⁷Carmi’s son: Achar,^h who brought trouble on Israel when he was unfaithful by taking the things set apart for destruction.

⁸Ethan’s son: Azariah.

⁹Hezron’s sons, who were born to him: Jerahmeel, Ram, and Chelubai.^C

¹⁰Ram fathered Amminadab, and Amminadab fathered Nahshon, a leader of Judah’s descendants.

¹¹Nahshon fathered Salma, and Salma fathered Boaz.

¹²Boaz fathered Obed, and Obed fathered Jesse.

¹³Jesse fathered Eliab, his firstborn; Abinadab was born second, Shimea third, ¹⁴Nethanel fourth, Raddai fifth, ¹⁵Ozem sixth, and David seventh. ¹⁶Their sisters were Zeruiah and Abigail. Zeruiah’s three sons: Abishai, Joab, and Asahel. ¹⁷Amasa’s mother was Abigail, and his father was Jether the Ishmaelite.

¹⁸Caleb son of Hezron had children by his wife Azubah and by Jerioth. These were Azubah’s sons: Jesher, Shobab, and Ardon. ¹⁹When Azubah died, Caleb married Ephrath, and she bore Hur to him. ²⁰Hur fathered Uri, and Uri fathered Bezalel. ²¹After this, Hezron slept with the daughter of Machir the father of Gilead.ⁱ Hezron had married her when he was sixty years old, and she bore Segub to him. ²²Segub fathered Jair, who possessed twenty-three towns in the land of Gilead. ²³But Geshur and Aram captured^D Jair’s Villages^E along with Kenath and its surrounding villages—sixty towns. All these were the descendants of Machir father of Gilead. ²⁴After Hezron’s death in Caleb-ephrathah, his wife Abijah bore^F Ashhur to him. He was the father of Tekoa.

²⁵The sons of Jerahmeel, Hezron’s firstborn: Ram, his firstborn, Bunah, Oren, Ozem, and Ahijah. ²⁶Jerahmeel had another wife named Atarah, who was the mother of Onam.

²⁷The sons of Ram, Jerahmeel’s firstborn: Maaz, Jamin, and Eker.

²⁸Onam’s sons: Shammai and Jada. Shammai’s sons: Nadab and Abishur. ²⁹Abishur’s wife was named Abihail, who bore Ahban and Molid to him.

³⁰Nadab’s sons: Seled and Appaim. Seled died without children.

³¹Appaim’s son: Ishi.

Ishi’s son: Sheshan.

Sheshan’s descendant: Ahlai.

³²The sons of Jada, brother of Shammai: Jether and Jonathan. Jether died without children.

³³Jonathan’s sons: Peleth and Zaza. These were the descendants of Jerahmeel.

³⁴Sheshan had no sons, only daughters, but he did have an Egyptian servant whose name was Jarha. ³⁵Sheshan gave his daughter in marriage to his servant Jarha, and she bore Attai to him.

³⁶Attai fathered Nathan, and Nathan fathered Zabad.

³⁷Zabad fathered Ephlal, and Ephlal fathered Obed.

³⁸Obed fathered Jehu, and Jehu fathered Azariah.

³⁹Azariah fathered Helez, and Helez fathered Elasah.

⁴⁰Elasah fathered Sismai, and Sismai fathered Shallum.

⁴¹Shallum fathered Jekamiah, and Jekamiah fathered Elishama.

⁴²The sons of Caleb brother of Jerahmeel: Mesha, his firstborn, fathered Ziph, and Mareshah, his second son,^A fathered Hebron.

⁴³Hebron’s sons: Korah, Tappuah, Rekem, and Shema.

⁴⁴Shema fathered Raham, who fathered Jorkeam, and Rekem fathered Shammai.

⁴⁵Shammai’s son was Maon, and Maon fathered Beth-zur.

⁴⁶Caleb’s concubine Ephah was the mother of Haran, Moza, and Gazez. Haran fathered Gazez.

⁴⁷Jahdai’s sons: Regem, Jotham, Geshan, Pelet, Ephah, and Shaaph.

⁴⁸Caleb’s concubine Maacah was the mother of Sheber and Tirhanah. ⁴⁹She was also the mother of Shaaph, Madmannah’s father, and of Sheva, the father of Machbenah and Gibea. Caleb’s daughter was Achsah.

⁵⁰These were Caleb’s descendants.

The sons of Hur, Ephrathah’s firstborn:

Shobal fathered Kiriath-jearim;

⁵¹Salma fathered Bethlehem,

and Hareph fathered Beth-gader.

⁵²These were the descendants of Shobal the father of Kiriath-jearim: Haroeh, half of the Manahathites,^{B 53}and the families of Kiriath-jearim—the Ithrites, Puthites, Shumathites, and Mishraites. The Zorathites and Eshtaolites descended from these.

⁵⁴Salma’s descendants: Bethlehem, the Netophathites, Atroth-beth-joab, and half of the Manahathites, the Zorites, ⁵⁵and the families of scribes who lived in Jabez—the Tirathites, Shimeathites, and Sucathites. These are the Kenites who came from Hammath, the father of Rechab’s family.

DAVID’S DESCENDANTS

3These^a were David’s sons who were born to him in Hebron:

Amnon was the firstborn, by Ahinoam of Jezreel;

Daniel was born second, by Abigail of Carmel;

²Absalom son of Maacah, daughter of King Talmai of Geshur, was third;

Adonijah son of Haggith was fourth;

³Shephatiah, by Abital, was fifth;

and Ithream, by David’s wife Eglah, was sixth.

⁴Six sons were born to David in Hebron, where he reigned seven years and six months, and he reigned in Jerusalem thirty-three years.^b

⁵These^c sons were born to him in Jerusalem:

Shimea, Shobab, Nathan, and Solomon.^d These four were born to him by Bath-shua^e daughter of Ammiel.

⁶David’s other sons: Ibhar, Elishua,^f Eliphelet, ⁷Nogah, Nepheg, Japhia, ⁸Elishama, Eliada, and Eliphelet—nine sons.

⁹These were all David’s sons, with their sister Tamar,^g in addition to the sons by his concubines.

JUDAH’S KINGS

¹⁰Solomon’s son was Rehoboam;

his son was Abijah, his son Asa,

his son Jehoshaphat, ¹¹his son Jehoram,^BC

his son Ahaziah, his son Joash,

¹²his son Amaziah, his son Azariah,

his son Jotham, ¹³his son Ahaz,

his son Hezekiah, his son Manasseh,

¹⁴his son Amon, and his son Josiah.

¹⁵Josiah’s sons:

Johanan was the firstborn, Jehoiakim second,

Zedekiah third, and Shallum fourth.

¹⁶Jehoiakim’s sons:

his sons Jeconiah and Zedekiah.

DAVID’S LINE AFTER THE EXILE

¹⁷The sons of Jeconiah the captive:

his sons Shealtiel, ¹⁸Malchiram, Pedaiah, Shenazzar, Jekamiah, Hoshama, and Nedabiah.

¹⁹Pedaiah’s sons: Zerubbabel and Shimei.

Zerubbabel’s sons: Meshullam and Hananiah, with their sister Shelomith; ²⁰and five others—Hashubah, Ohel, Berechiah, Hasadiah, and Jushab-hesed.

²¹Hananiah’s descendants: Pelatiah, Jeshaiah, and the sons of Rephaiah, Arnan, Obadiah, and Shecaniah.^D

²²The son^E of Shecaniah: Shemaiah.

Shemaiah’s sons: Hattush, Igal, Bariah, Neariah, and Shaphat—six.

²³Neariah’s sons: Elioenai, Hizkiah, and Azrikam—three.

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